[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Axbridge R.D.C.

  • Axbridge (Somerset, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Axbridge R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Disease. Total cases Cases admitted Total not ified. to Isolation Deaths Hospital. 3mall-pox - - - Scarlet Fever 25 14 - Diphtheria Enteric Fever (including i1' :'C' [ ■ paratyphoid) - - - Measles 302 4 - Whooping Cough 1 6? - - Puerperal Pyrexia 1 - - Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1 1 - Cerebro-spinal meningitis 3 3 - Dysentery - - - Malaria - -• - Pneumonia 10 - - ^.cute Poliomyelitis 2 2 - Encephalitis Lethargica - - - Erysipelas 5 - - Phemphigus Neonatorum 1 1 - 51 7 25 52 rooms, school dormitory, and a hut were disinfected following cases on infectious disease, during the year. Cases of personal infection are now very infrequent. Only 7 cases of scabies were notified during the year. TUBERCULOSIS. Total cases not ified. Tuberculosis - Pulmonary 28 Non-Pulmonary 7 Morbidity Rate for Tuberculosis. Total cases notified - 35 Estimated Population 25,400 Rate = 1 .3 Incidence per 1 ,000 per year. Pulmonary Hon-Pulmonary Total Male Female Male Female Male Female Number of Cases on Register at 31st. 34 34 9 11 43 45 December 1 948. DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION. The following table shows the progress of immunisation against diphtherias- Total Deaths. 8 Immunisation completed during 1 948. Under 5 years. 5-15 years. Number of children 387 1 7 n total of 3,260 children under the age of 1 5 years have completed a full course of immunisation at any time up to 31st. December 1948 against an estimated mid-year population 1948 of 5,534-